Re: troubles using network boot with HVM guest

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I tried to boot from network with HVM guest, using guest='n'
> configuration value. The DHCP query is correctly send to the server, and
> the answer is propagated to the virtual domain interface, as
> demonstrated by tcpdump capture (included). However, it seems the
> etherboot image included in xen isn't able to process it correctly, all
> I have is 'no ip address' error message.
> 
> I've tried both bridging and routing network setup, without differences.
> I also tried non-default interface models ('ne2k_pci' results in 'no
> bootable device found' error message, and 'pcnet32' result in a domain
> unavailable through vnc).
> 
> I've googled at bit on the issue, and I found references to this discussion:
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-08/msg00009.html
> 
> if I understand correctly, PXE boot was a known issue at least 10 month
> ago... What is current status in xen 3.1 ?


What are you trying to pxeboot?  I've heard of people having issues 
booting some versions of syslinux with etherboot.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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